A Frustrating Battle with Nginx and FastCGI Timeouts – How I Finally Resolved It

Introduction As someone who works in software and systems engineering, you sometimes run into those deeply frustrating issues that feel like they’re consuming more time and energy than they should. Recently, I faced one of these moments with my Moodle and Streamlit applications running on Nginx, which both suddenly stopped working properly. The issues started small — slow load times, occasional failure to load a page, and eventually, full-on timeouts. Nginx kept throwing alerts in the error logs about open sockets, and my pages would refuse to load. [Read More]

💡 Installing Odoo 17 with PostgreSQL 16: Common Issues & How to Fix Them

Introduction: In this guide, I’ll walk you through the installation of Odoo 17 with PostgreSQL 16 using Docker Compose. Along the way, we’ll address several common issues that might arise, such as database password mismatches, missing roles, and how to troubleshoot PostgreSQL authentication failures. By the end of this article, you’ll have a fully functional Odoo 17 instance running on PostgreSQL 16, and you’ll know how to troubleshoot some of the more frustrating roadblocks. [Read More]